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The Geauga Women's Center presents a Festival of Women's Literature with Dr. Bonnie Huffman of Youngstown State University, from 7-9 p.m. on March 21, April 4 and April 18. Discussion series topics will include women writing, images of women in literature, and women's diaries and journals. For further information, call the Geauga Women's Center, 11984 Caves Road (downstairs), 729-1199, Carolyn at 286-2081, Sally at 729-0481, or Nancy at 729-4887.

The CWRU Gay Student Union in cooperation with the CWAU Women's Center will present "Word Is Out," a documentary on homosexuality, Thursday, March 20, at 8:00 p.m. in Strosacker Auditorium. Admission is free:

Cleveland Women's Choir. Anyone interested in singing feminist music, drop in at 3178 Meadowbrook on Thursday evenings, 7:30, or call Penny

at 932-3326.

Two national political campaign techniques training institutes-one for women judicial candidates and one for Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific and Native American women-have been scheduled on consecutive weekends in April in Overland Park, Kansas, by the National Women's Education Fund (NWEF). The institute for judicial campaigns is scheduled April 11-13 at TWA/Breech Training Academy in cooperation with the newly-formed National Association of Women Judges. The second institute will meet at the same place on April 18-20.

A $100 fee covers room, board, tuition, and materials for each institute. Applications for registration, limited by space available, can be obtained from NWEF, 1410 Que St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20009. A Imited amount of financial ald is available, on basis of need. Aid applications can also be obtained from NWEF.

On Saturday, April 26, a national March for a Non-Nuclear World will be held in Washington, D.C. Call Dorothy Spiker, 921-3178, or Amy Hubbard, 861-6945 (days), tor information. Buses to be organized.

The South Central Women's Studies Association, a regional division of the National Women's Studies Association, formed to "further social, political and professional development of women's studies" in the States of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas, invites program proposals for panels, seminars, workshops, papers, arts and crafts displays, musical and dance performances, dramatic presentations and other creative activities related to six major topics to be covered in Its Third Annual Conference, October 18-19, 1980, at the University of Texas at Arlington: Pioneers Then and Now-Women Innovators; Silver Threads and Golden Notebooks-Women and the Arts: Healing and Helping-Physical, Mental and Spiritual Health; Getting and Spending-Economic Woman; Bearing and Caring-Families in the 1980's; and Majority and Minority Women-Myths and Realities.

Proposals should include name, address and affiliation (if applicable) of the person organizing the activity and of other participants, and a onepage description of the proposed activity including title, nature and tormat, time required and equipment needed. Proposals will be judged on their appropriateness to conference themes and on the extent to which they use the humanities to clarify the values, concerns, traditions and experiences of women's lives. The deadline tor proposals is May 1, 1980. Proposals and/or requests for additional information about the conference should be addressed to: Jeanne Ford, WomanFair Coordinator, P.O. Box 19528 UTA Station, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019. Phone: (817) 273-2219.

Women USA Hot Line (800-221-4945) is a 24-hour toll-free number one can dial to hear a taped information and action message on such issues as the ERA, inflation, childcare, social security, reproductive treedom. jobs, the US budget and other subjects of importance to women. Founded by Bella Abzug and five other nationally known women leaders to reach out primarily to unorganized women who identify with women's movement goals of equal rights and economic justice for women, Women USA through its hotline will also give the caller a suggested action-a letter or telegram she can send to Washington, a phone call she can make, a rally she can attend. Other projects planned by Women USA include lobbying in Washington on legislation and issues affecting women, publication of fact sheets, and a campaign to "Send Your Bills to Congress".

Morning Seminar, an Informal discussion group which meets Thursday mornings from 9-11 a.m. at the Fireside Room of the West Shore Unitarian Church, 20401 Hilllard Road, Rocky River, 333-2255, will present the following topics in March. Cost is $1.50 per session.

March 13-"Genetic Counseling". Explore the fascinating field of human genetics and genetic counseling with Mary Catherine Amer, Departmental Assistant at the CWRU Genetic Center.

March 27-"Financial Planning for Women". Barbara Johnson of Consultants Planning Agency Corp. in Lakewood will show us how to survive and prosper in these times of rising inflation, high divorce rates, twopaycheck marriages, etc.

We are an inspired group of women: lesbians, heterosexuals, mothers, working and middle class, living in a political community dedicated to non-violent revolution called Movement for a New Society. We are holding a 9-day training program with an optional 4-day group project following to share our skills, visions, and experiences with other women. The program will include: feminist strategizing for social change; naming and nurturing our dreams; analyzing the role of oppression in our lives and movement: creative ways for dealing with the conflicts that arise in our work; and concrete skills for direct action campaigns.

The training program will be held May 2-11 and 11-15, 1980. For more information, write: Women's Training Collective, 4709 Windsor Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19143.

NOW's Bay Women's Rap Greep is an informal rap group meeting the third Sunday of every month at 3:00 p.m. sharp. If you are tired of the bar scene and would like to meet with your sisters in a less destructive manner, contact Joye at 268-4308 or Kay at 761-8971 after 5:00 for more nto. Our next meeting will be held March 16 at 3:00. All women are

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AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE sponsors a vigil for safe energy every Friday from noon to 1:00 at CEI. Public Square.

Freda Rosen, Coordinator of the Coalition of Grass Roots Women. and Neter Brooks. President of the New York City Unemployed and Welfare Council, will speak on "The New Union: What Does It Mean to Organize?" at WomenSpace. 1258 Euclid Avenue, on Tuesday, March 11. at 5 p.m.

DIGNITY, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meetings are at Hallinan Center, CWRU, the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month, beginning with a women's meeting at 7 p.m. and Mass and a program at 8 p.m. For more information, call Patti at 321-9456,

A Cleveland Women's Writers Guild is being formed which will benefit all women writers by providing feedback on your writing, public reading opportunities, encouragement, publication information, writing opportunities and membership in The Feminist Writers Guild, Berkeley, California. A writers guild for women only will help us defend ourselves against the sexism of publishers and the media. It will be a flexible organization for women of various perspectives. Meetings will be the second Monday of each month. For further information, call Pat at 791-0311.

We are three Feminists living on twelve acres in southcentral Kentucky. We share skills, most resources, thoughts, labor and strive for collective sufficiency. We are anti-nuclear environmentalists struggling for change on a grass roots level while creating a supportive womonspace, learning new patterns, and reclaiming our self-expression.

Exploring our lives, we recognize how we aftect/influence social/political/economic change, and how Feminist theory/action seeks to break down barriers of sexism, racism, classism, and agism which keep us isolated and weak. We base our relationships on collective responsibility and mutual support rather than on competition-and-individual isolation.

Womyn, including womyn with children, considering an alternative lifestyle write: Sunnybrook Wimmins Collective, Sunnybrook, Kentucky 42650. Send SASE.

The FREE CLINIC is offering individual and group counseling for victims of incest, on Tuesday evenings between 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. To make an appointment, call 721-4010 and say you want an appointment with Joyce Spencer or Jan Felixson. There are no fees or eligibility requirements at the Free Clinic (12201 Euclid Avenue).

WOMEN TOGETHER, INC., Cleveland's shelter house for battered women and their children, is selling belge T-shirts with royal blue printing: "Women are Together". Hanes T-shirts $5.00, French cut $7.50. Available at Coventry Books, 1824 Coventry Road, Appletree Books, 12419 Cedar Road, Sleeping Bee Art Gallery (in Ohio City), East Side Food Coop, 11628 Euclid Avenue, and at Women Together's administrative office at the YWCA, 3201 Euclid Avenue. Your purchase helps to operate the shelter for battered women. For further into call Jan Ogline at 431-6267.

WOMEN TOGETHER also welcomes donations of turniture, especially beds and dressers, usable household items, linen, educational games and toys, and good books for both adults and children. For further info call Jan Ogline at 431-6267.

The University of Akron will present a workshop on Perspectives on Sex Roles and Identities beginning January 23, 1980 for 15 weeks. The workshop will meet on Wednesday nights from 8:00 to 9:50 p.m. at the University of Akron, Olin 124. For information, call 1-375-7281.

The workshop is a review of the biological, historical, political, economic and social factors which have shaped roles and identities in our society. Topics will include Myths of Co-Education: Gender and Identity in Education, Women and Work in American Culture, Politics of Sexual Discrimination, Human Rights and Group Rights, Psychological Differences Between the Sexes, Economics of Sexual Roles, Women Heroes, Women Writers, Biological Perspective, and The Making of the Patriarchy: The Social and Political History of Sexism in the U.S.

The Coalition of Women's Art Organizations has announced plans for the First International Festival of Women Artists to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark from July 14-30, 1980. Sponsored by the Coalition, which is comprised of 95 women's arts organizations representing over 60,000 women artists, the festival will coincide with the 1980 World Conference of the U.N. Decade for Women in Copenhagen to be held at the same time. The event will include readings, performances, panel discussions. films and an exhibition of postcard art. It will culminate in a procession event symbolizing peace and solidarity among women worldwide. For more information, call Susan Schwalb at (212) 674-3434.

FEMINIST ISSUES N.O.W. is a radio program broadcast from 7:30 to 8:00 a.m. every Sunday morning on WMMS and from 12:30 to 1:00a.m. every Friday on WZAK. Ideas are welcome. Contact Julie Patterson at 581-8281 with advertising suggestions.

Sister-Rhapsody, a feminist band, will perform at Wilder Hall in Oberlin on March 15 at 7:30 p.m. $1.00 admission. Oven Productions will present Sister-Rhapsody on April 19. See next month's WSW for further details.

The GEAUGA WOMEN'S CENTER, 11984 Caves Road. Chesterland, Ohio. at the northwest corner of Wilson Mills and Caves Road (Community Church of Chesterland. downstairs), has a Drop-In Center open the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month from 8 to 10 p.m. Offered are support groups, self-help/health, information, and referral service on doctors, lawyers, therapists, social services and divorce, and various speakers. The group needs feedback (good or bad) to expand its referral lists. Come share your experiences. For further information. call 729-1199, or call Nancy at 729-4887, Sue at 338-8398, or Sally at 423-3871.

The GEAR Foundation has begun a women's drop-in group on the first Monday of each month. There is also a "women with women'' group on the third Monday in the month to provide a safe place to explore your feelings about other women. All meetings will be held in the Gay Community Center at 1012 Sumner at 8:00. For more information, call the Gay Hotline at 621-3380.

The National Women's Studies Association will hold its annual convention at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, from May 16-20, 1980. The planned program will include panels, seminars, and papers in feminist education and presentations in the arts. Participants can look forward to discussions of Women's Studies Programs in academic institutions and of feminist alternatives to traditional education. For turther information contact Elaine Reuben, Coordinator; NWSA, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742.

Organizers for the third annual Women's Jazz Festival to be held in Kan-sas City, Missouri March 20-23 report that seven groups have contirmed they will perform at the festival, including Cleo Laine, Joanne Brackeen, the Carla Bley Band, the Women's Jazz Festival All-Stars, the Mary Watkins Band, Dianne Reeves, and an unnamed 17-piece all-women's band from Los Angeles. The festival will also feature a Genesis Jam for beginning jazz students, a lecture/film series, a jazzwoman jam and an open jam, and a special salute to the original International Sweethearts of Rhythm.

THE DOMESTIC WORKERS OF AMERICA, INC. is sponsoring Operation Job Bank. The purpose of the program is to improve the economic living standards of the unemployed, the underemployed, and the untrained. It will explore such ideas as opening concession stands in downtown office buildings and establishing a public marketplace controlled by community co-op groups. For more information about the project, write or call Hotline, Domestic Workers of America Incorporated, 1258 Euclid Avenue, Room 200, Cleveland, Ohio 44115.

Displaced Homemakers (women who have lost the support they were dependent upon) can get help through the Displaced Homemakers Program at all campuses of Cuyahoga Community College. The program otfers services to help women become "job ready" and self-supporting. No fees are charged. To be eligible, a person must have worked without pay as a homemaker for her family, had not been gainfully employed, and is at least 35 years old. Courses include how to find and keep a job, interviewing, community resources, and budgeting. Call the campus nearest you: Metro, 241-5966; Western, 845-4000, Ext. 250, Eastern, 464-1450, Ext. 275.

Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality) has a new pamphlet, Talking Union. The guide includes a glossary explaining terms about union negotiations, organizing and meetings; how to tell the EEOC from the FEPC; highlights of U.S. labor history and labor law. Copies are $1.25 each plus $.60 postage..or $.80 plus postage if you order 10 or more. Order from Union Wage, P. O. Box 40904, San Francisco, Califor nia 94140.

Kent now has a women's coffee house on the first and third Saturday of each month. The Tenth Muse opens at 8:00, with entertainment beginning at 9:30. It's located at 202 N. Lincoln, directly behind Hillel House. For those who have come, the past two months have provided good music and a quiet, supportive atmosphere, well worth a short 45-minute drive. For more information, call Bonnie at 1-878-6885.

Make your old newspapers work to support a worthy community agency. Give them to the Head Help Paper Drive. The container will be parked daily at the Geauga Market House on Rt. 306 just north of Rt. 322.

Heights Clitizens for Recycling, a group working to establish year-round recycling programs to conserve resources, will sponsor a newspaper drive on March 15 and 16, 10-5, at the Cleveland Heights Pavilion Parking Lot, Superior and Mayfield. Newspapers only-no magazines. For further information, call 291-0843.

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